Brian Ward

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Brian Ward is a scholar working on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Ward has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Oceanography, 30 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 29 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Brian Ward's work include Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (33 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Brian Ward is often cited by papers focused on Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (47 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (33 papers) and Climate variability and models (19 papers). Brian Ward collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and United Kingdom. Brian Ward's co-authors include Peter J. Minnett, Chelle Gentemann, M. J. Murray, I. J. Barton, Craig Donlon, T. J. Nightingale, Kai H. Christensen, Graig Sutherland, Sebastian Landwehr and Adrian H. Callaghan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Energy & Environmental Science.

In The Last Decade

Brian Ward

69 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toward Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research

2002 535 citations Craig Donlon, Peter J. Minnett et al. Journal of Climate profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Ward Ireland	27	1.7k	1.1k	1.1k	148	125	71	2.2k
Luca Centurioni United States	26	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	943 0.9×	141 1.0×	49 0.4×	108	2.4k
T. M. Balakrishnan Nair India	22	1.2k 0.7×	799 0.7×	281 0.3×	486 3.3×	93 0.7×	99	1.5k
Fabrice Véron United States	27	1.4k 0.8×	937 0.8×	241 0.2×	838 5.7×	214 1.7×	54	2.1k
Edward C. Monahan United States	20	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	704 0.6×	714 4.8×	167 1.3×	53	2.2k
Taiping Wang United States	21	621 0.4×	509 0.4×	277 0.3×	284 1.9×	45 0.4×	77	1.1k
Ju Chen China	21	850 0.5×	372 0.3×	462 0.4×	47 0.3×	31 0.2×	73	1.1k
Andrew H. Barnard United States	19	1.4k 0.8×	159 0.1×	395 0.4×	59 0.4×	92 0.7×	38	1.6k
Dong‐Jin Kang South Korea	23	843 0.5×	485 0.4×	410 0.4×	32 0.2×	25 0.2×	100	1.5k
Xianwen Bao China	19	732 0.4×	441 0.4×	242 0.2×	332 2.2×	20 0.2×	95	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Ward

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Ward

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Ward

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Ward. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Ward based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Ward. Brian Ward is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kang, Sok Kuh, Sung‐Hun Kim, I.‐I. Lin, et al.. (2024). The North Equatorial Current and rapid intensification of super typhoons. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1742–1742. 5 indexed citations

Tweedie, Mark, et al.. (2020). The analysis of dissolved inorganic carbon in liquid using a microfluidic conductivity sensor with membrane separation of CO2. Microfluidics and Nanofluidics. 24(5). 37–37. 9 indexed citations

Sutherland, Graig, et al.. (2019). Upper Ocean Response to Rain Observed From a Vertical Profiler. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 124(6). 3664–3681. 14 indexed citations

Tweedie, Mark, Dan Sun, Brian Ward, & Paul Maguire. (2019). Long-term hydrolytically stable bond formation for future membrane-based deep ocean microfluidic chemical sensors. Lab on a Chip. 19(7). 1287–1295. 12 indexed citations

Landwehr, Sebastian, S. D. Miller, M. J. Smith, et al.. (2018). Using eddy covariance to measure the dependence of air–sea CO ₂ exchange rate on friction velocity. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 18(6). 4297–4315. 16 indexed citations

Breivik, Øyvind, Sebastian Landwehr, Graig Sutherland, et al.. (2018). Turbulence Scaling Comparisons in the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 123(3). 2172–2191. 26 indexed citations

Landwehr, Sebastian, Graig Sutherland, Thomas G. Bell, et al.. (2017). Parameterizing air‐sea gas transfer velocity with dissipation. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(4). 3041–3056. 41 indexed citations

Fransson, Agneta, Melissa Chierici, Ingunn Skjelvan, et al.. (2017). Effects of sea‐ice and biogeochemical processes and storms on under‐ice water fCO₂ during the winter‐spring transition in the high Arctic Ocean: Implications for sea‐air CO₂ fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans. 122(7). 5566–5587. 38 indexed citations

Bresnahan, Philip J., et al.. (2017). Looking Ahead: A Profiling Float Micro-Rosette. Oceanography. 30(2). 32–32. 3 indexed citations

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Bell, Thomas G., Sebastian Landwehr, S. D. Miller, et al.. (2017). Estimation of bubble-mediated air–sea gas exchange from concurrent DMS and CO ₂ transfer velocities at intermediate–high wind speeds. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 17(14). 9019–9033. 65 indexed citations

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Landwehr, Sebastian, S. D. Miller, M. J. Smith, E. S. Saltzman, & Brian Ward. (2014). Analysis of the PKT correction for direct CO ₂ flux measurements over the ocean. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(7). 3361–3372. 38 indexed citations

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Bell, Thomas G., et al.. (2013). Air–sea dimethylsulfide (DMS) gas transfer in the North Atlantic: evidence for limited interfacial gas exchange at high wind speed. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 13(21). 11073–11087. 68 indexed citations

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Bell, Thomas G., et al.. (2013). Air/sea DMS gas transfer in the North Atlantic: evidence for limited interfacial gas exchange at high wind speed. 6 indexed citations

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Sutherland, Graig, Brian Ward, & Kai H. Christensen. (2013). Wave-turbulence scaling in the ocean mixed layer. Ocean science. 9(4). 597–608. 50 indexed citations

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Wick, Gary A., et al.. (2013). Near-surface diurnal warming simulations: validation with high resolution profile measurements. Ocean science. 9(6). 977–986. 4 indexed citations

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Landwehr, Sebastian, et al.. (2013). Mapping flow distortion on oceanographic platforms using computational fluid dynamics. Ocean science. 9(5). 855–866. 14 indexed citations

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Ward, Brian, et al.. (2013). Oceanic wave breaking coverage separation techniques for active and maturing whitecaps. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8. 1–12. 19 indexed citations

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Ho, David T., Christopher J. Zappa, Wade R. McGillis, et al.. (2003). Influence of rain on air-sea gas exchange: Lessons from a model ocean. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly. 13170. 6 indexed citations

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Donlon, Craig, Peter J. Minnett, Chelle Gentemann, et al.. (2002). Toward Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research. Journal of Climate. 15(4). 353–369. 535 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ward, Brian & P.A. Wilson. (1992). Forces on a body of revolution in a vortex flow field. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 3 indexed citations

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